Robert Oliver Reed was an English actor. After making his first significant screen appearances in Hammer Horror films in the early 1960s, his notable films include The Trap (1966), playing Bill Sikes in Oliver!, Women in Love (1969), Hannibal Brooks (1969), The Devils (1971), Athos in The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974), the stepfather in Tommy (1975), The Brood (1979), Funny Bones (1995) and Gladiator (2000).
Reed in 1968
Reed (left) with Carole André and Marcello Mastroianni in Dirty Weekend (1973)
Broome Hall, Surrey, Reed's home for eight years from 1971
Appearing with Kate Millett on the After Dark programme "Do Men Have to Be Violent?"
The Trap is a 1966 British-Canadian adventure western film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Oliver Reed and Rita Tushingham. Shot in the wilderness of the Canadian province of British Columbia, the film is an unusual love story about a rough trapper and a mute orphan girl.
Film poster by Arnaldo Putzu